function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
[440] 1 Cor 8:1b-7, 11-13;Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 23-24; Luke 6:27-38.
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Bl Francis Garate, religious [SJ] Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) From the Common of Religious Readings from the Common of Saints:
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Anniversary:
127th anniversary of the death of M. Roland Thomas (29) d. 1893 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
43rd anniversary of the death of P. Michael Costello (65) d. 1977 at New York, NY, USA.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Hermann Husemann (85) d. 2012 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
61st birthday of P. Simon MAKURU (born this day in 1959).